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Free 4th of July Math Puzzles for Grades K-8

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Free 4th of July Math Puzzles for Grades K-8

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Are you ready to celebrate Independence Day with your math students this fourth of July?

In the United States, the 4th of July commemorates the date that the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776. This national holiday is celebrated with grilling outdoors, pool parties, music, parades, and lots of fireworks.

And you can add working on fun math puzzles to the festivities this 4th of July, by sharing today’s free July 4th Math Worksheets and Activities for Grades K-8 in your upcoming lesson plans. Today’s activities are super fun, 100% free, easy-to-print, and can be shared with children of all grade levels at home, in the classroom, or both!

These kinds of holiday-themed math puzzles and activities give your kids a chance to apply their math and reasoning skills in an enjoyable context that incorporates critical thinking, number sense, and even algebra skills!

So, if you are ready to channel your kid’s excitement for Independence Day this year into an enjoyable math learning opportunity, then be sure to take advantage of these free 4th of July Math Activities for Kids!

Each worksheet can be used as a warm-up/anticipatory set or cool-down activity as well as a key component to any math lesson for grades K-8. Full answer keys for each activity are included.

Tags: 4th of July, July 4th, Independence Day, math puzzles, math worksheets, math riddles, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, Homeschool, Homeschooling

How to Download: You can download any of the puzzles by right-clicking on the image and saving it to your computer or by dragging-and-dropping it to your desktop.


1.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades K-2)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Fireworks=8

Popsicle=10

Balloons=5

?=13

Do you want access to hundreds of grade-specific holiday math activities for every month of the year? Become a Mashup Math member and access all of our K-8 math activity libraries. Start your free 7-day trial.

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2.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades 3-5)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Fireworks=12

Popsicle=4

Balloons=5

BBQ=3

?=24

Do you want access to hundreds of grade-specific holiday math activities for every month of the year? Become a Mashup Math member and access all of our K-8 math activity libraries. Start your free 7-day trial.

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3.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades 6-8)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Fireworks=100

Popsicle=5

Balloons=61

BBQ=34

?=68

Do you want access to hundreds of grade-specific holiday math activities for every month of the year? Become a Mashup Math member and access all of our K-8 math activity libraries. Start your free 7-day trial.

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Are you looking for more daily math challenges and puzzles to share with your kids?

My best-selling workbook 101 Math Challenges for Engaging Your Students is now available as a PDF download. You can get yours today by clicking here.


How will you use these math puzzles with your kids? Share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments section below!

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By Anthony Persico

Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.

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Free St. Patrick's Day Math Activities for Grades K-8

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Free St. Patrick's Day Math Activities for Grades K-8

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Are you looking for fun, free, and printable St. Patrick’s Day Math Worksheets and Activities to share with your students at home and in your classroom this March?

Sharing engaging holiday-themed math activities will give your students an opportunity to apply their math skills and develop their critical thinking while working through interesting puzzles and worksheets that capture their enthusiasm for significant dates such as St. Patrick’s Day.

If you want to channel your students’ enthusiasm for St. Patrick’s Day into meaningful learning experiences and watch their interest, engagement, and participation skyrocket, go ahead and share the following Free St. Patrick’s Day Math Worksheets and St. Patrick’s Day Math Activities in your upcoming lesson plans.

Each worksheet can be used as a warm-up/anticipatory set or cool-down activity as well as a key component to any math lesson for grades K-8. Full answer keys for each activity are included.

Tags: St. Patrick’s Day, Math Activities, Math Puzzles, Math Worksheets, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, Homeschool, Homeschooling

How to Download: You can download any of the puzzles by right-clicking on the image and saving it to your computer or by dragging-and-dropping it to your desktop.


1.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades K-2)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Shamrock=5

Hat=7

Flag=1

?=13

Do you want access to hundreds of grade-specific holiday math activities for every month of the year? Become a Mashup Math member and access all of our K-8 math activity libraries. Start your free 7-day trial.

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2.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades 3-5)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Clover=9

Irish Flag=9

Hat=8

Accordion=9

?=17

Do you want access to hundreds of grade-specific holiday math activities for every month of the year? Become a Mashup Math member and access all of our K-8 math activity libraries. Start your free 7-day trial.

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3.) Find the value of the '?' (for Grades 6-8)

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Clover=46

Irish Flag=46

Hat=27

Accordion=198

?=317

Do you want access to hundreds of grade-specific holiday math activities for every month of the year? Become a Mashup Math member and access all of our K-8 math activity libraries. Start your free 7-day trial.

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Bonus St. Patrick’s Day Math Activities

Here are 5 more bonus St. Patrick’s Day math activities for kids:

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1.) Multiplication tables work like a Bingo board, where the value of each box represents the product of its corresponding row and column.

Rainbow = 0

Green Hat = 1

Leprechaun = 2

Heart = 4

Pot of Gold = 0

Shamrock = 5

Looking for more free math challenges like this one to share with your kids? click here

 


2.) Multiplication Area Model

Area models help kids to think visually about multiplication, which is the approach that Mathematical Mindsets author Jo Boaler recommends most for improving math understanding.

Balloons = 10

Shoe = 6

Leprechaun = 60

Shamrock = 30

Looking for more free math challenges like this one to share with your kids? click here

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Are you looking for more daily math challenges and puzzles to share with your kids?

My best-selling workbook 101 Math Challenges for Engaging Your Students is now available as a PDF download. You can get yours today by clicking here.


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3.) Which One Doesn't Belong? (simple)

Which One Doesn’t Belong? (WODB) activities are meant to spark mathematical thinking and discussion and do not have a single correct answer.

Want to learn more about how to use WOBD? math activities with your kids? click here

Tip: Have your kids justify their thinking in writing!


Are you looking for more daily WODB? math graphics?

You can now share 101 daily WODB warm-up activities for grades 1-9 with your kids with our PDF workbook!


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4.) Bonus St. Patricks’s Day Puzzle

Use your knowledge of the order of operations to find the value of each symbol and the ‘?’ in the puzzle.

Top Hat = 3

Pot of Gold = 9

Teddy Bear = 5

Irish Flag = 4

? = 21

 


5.) Math Writing Prompt

Writing about math encourages creativity, exploration, and communicating one's thoughts and feelings, which leads to deep and meaningful understanding of difficult math concepts.

And Think/Notice/Wonder (TNW) writing activities are a great way to get your kids engaged in math writing every day.

Want to learn more about how to use TNW math activities with your kids? click here


Bonus! St. Patrick’s Day Math Riddle

In a far away land on the other side of the rainbow, there lives unicorns, centaurs, and leprechauns.

In total, there are 22 heads and 72 feet. If the number of unicorns is equal to the number of centaurs, how many unicorns, centaurs, and leprechauns live beyond the rainbow?

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Key: 7 unicorns , 7 centaurs , 8 leprechauns


How will you use these math puzzles with your kids? Share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments section below!

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By Anthony Persico

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Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.

 
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Your Kids Will Love These Valentine's Day Math Puzzles

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Your Kids Will Love These Valentine's Day Math Puzzles

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Are you looking for some fun, free, and printable Valentine's Day Math Activities to share with your kids this month?

(We just launched a brand new collection of free Valentine’s Day Math Worksheets for grades K-8! Click here to get your free pdf downloads).

Holiday-themed math puzzles give your kids an opportunity to think critically and deeply about mathematics, develop problem-solving strategies, and work through challenging problems.

And when math problems can channel your students' excitement for Valentine's Day into meaningful learning experiences, engagement will skyrocket!

So, go ahead and try these challenges and puzzles with your kids this month. These free and printable Valentine's Day Math activities are perfect for warm-up and/or cool-down activities and are great for sparking mathematical discussions in your home or classroom. The puzzles are perfect for students in grades 1 through 8.

How to Download: You can download any of the puzzles by right-clicking on the image and saving it to your computer or by dragging-and-dropping it to your desktop.

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1.) Find the value of the '?'

Use your math skills to find the value of each icon.

Love = 4

Heart Box = 5

Teddy Bear = 9

Love Birds = 3

? = 7

Hint: 8 minus what value is that same value?

 


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2.) Multiplication tables work like a Bingo board, where the value of each box represents the product of its corresponding row and column.

Card = 1

Rose = 2

Heart = 3

Cupid = 6

Chocolates = 18

 

Looking for more free math challenges like these? click here


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3.) Which One Doesn't Belong? (simple)

Remember that WODB? activities are meant to spark mathematical thinking and discussion and do not have a single correct answer.

Want to learn more about how to use WOBD? math activities with your kids? click here


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4.) Multiplication Area Model

Using area model challenge questions is a great strategy for getting kids to think visually about multiplication, which is the approach that Mathematical Mindsets author Jo Boaler recommends most for improving math understanding.

Hint: The area model represents the product of 13 and 9.

Heart = 10

Love Potion = 5

Teddy Bear = 15

Cupid = 12


Are you looking for more Valentine’s Day Math Worksheets for students in grades K-8?

Check out our brand new Valentine’s Day Math Worksheet Library to download free holiday-themed pdf worksheets with answer keys.

Click here to get your free pdf worksheets


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5.) Bonus Geometry Puzzle

Can your kids use their knowledge of area, perimeter, and composite figures to solve this puzzle?

Hint: Two half-circles make one full circle.

Area: approximately 178.5 square cm

Perimeter: approximately 51.4 cm

Do you want to get free math puzzles like this in your inbox every week? Click here to sign up for our free mailing list (includes a free eBook!).

 

How will you use these math puzzles with your kids? Share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments section below!

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By Anthony Persico

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Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.

 
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Free Groundhog Day Math Puzzle for Grades 3-8

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Free Groundhog Day Math Puzzle for Grades 3-8

Happy Groundhog Day!

Is it just me or is Groundhog Day not as big of a deal as it used to be?

Each year we celebrate Groundhog Day on February 2nd and anxiously await Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of how much longer winter will last.

And while his track record is pretty poor (his predictions are only correct 40% of the time according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), you can still cling to hope for a shorter winter and celebrate in your classroom this year with a fun Groundhog Day Math Puzzle for students in grades 3-8!

The activity can be used a warm-up, transition, homework assignment, or exit ticket and can be shared with students in grades 3 and up!

Image Source: Mashup Math MJ

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Groundhog Day Puzzle #1

 
Keep reading to see the answer key.

Keep reading to see the answer key.

 

Hint: Many people have zero confidence in the groundhog's prediction for early spring

Answer Key: Groundhog=12, Sun=0, Hat=6, ?=6


Groundhog Day Puzzle #2

 
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Answer Key: Cloud=7, Snowflake=20, ?=33 (the groundhog and the hat can be any two numbers with a sum of 13)

Are YOU looking for some super fun daily math puzzles for your students in grades 3-8? Our best-selling 101 Daily Math Challenges workbook is now available as a PDF download!


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By Anthony Persico

Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.

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12 Thanksgiving Math Activities for Grades 1-8

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12 Thanksgiving Math Activities for Grades 1-8

Thanksgiving Math Activities for Grades 1-8

Thanksgiving is here and it’s time to share some fun Thanksgiving-themed math activities and puzzles with your students in grades 1-8 (elementary and middle school). This collection of Thanksgiving Math Activities includes order of operations puzzles, area models and multiplication tables, and ‘which one doesn’t belong?’ Enjoy!

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The days leading up to Thanksgiving vacation are an exciting (and extremely distracting) time for you and your students.

But you can keep your students on track by sharing some fun Thanksgiving-themed math activities, puzzles, and challenges that channels their holiday excitement and enthusiasm into math learning experiences.

The following easy-to-print Thanksgiving Math Worksheets will add some holiday fun to your lesson plans this month. The activities can be shared with students in grades one through eight.

The activities are samples from our best-selling workbooks 101 Daily Math Challenges for Engaging Students in Grades 3-8 and 101 Daily ‘Which One Doesn’t Belong?’ Math Activities for Grades 1-8 .

The following Thanksgiving Math Activities can be used for anticipatory sets and warm-ups, exit tickets, transitions, and homework or extra credit assignments.

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1.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 1 of 12

Leaves = 18

Turkey = 9

Pumpkin = 12

? = 3

 

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2.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 2 of 12

Fire = 13

Apple Cider = 7

Acorn = 14

Honey = 15

? = 49


3.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 3 of 12

Turkey = 8

Calendar = 8

Candle = 5

Cake = 9

? = 67


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4.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 4 of 12

Chipmunk = 13

Hot Cider = 8

Pumpkin Pie = 24

Football = 20

? = 65


“I always look forward to getting my Mashup Math newsletter email every week. I love the free activities!” -Christina R., 5th Grade Math Teacher, Dallas, TX

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5.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 5 of 12

Pumpkin = 12

Berries = 5

Turkey = 6

Pie = 30

? = 192

 

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6.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 6 of 12

Pie = 10

Turkey = 14

Corn = 9

Pilgrim = 12

? = 92


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7.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 7 of 12

Cooking Pot = 6

Cupcakes = 18

Cranberry Sauce = 9

Cauliflower = 10

? = 126


Are you looking for more daily math challenges and puzzles to share with your kids?

My best-selling workbook 101 Math Challenges for Engaging Your Students in Grades 3-8 is now available as a PDF download!


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8.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 8 of 12

Apple = 6

Cider = 6

Cinnamon = 5

Kettle = 1

? = 180


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9.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 9 of 12

Multiplication Table

Pilgrim Hat = 8

Food Basket = 4

Mashed Potatoes = 1

Corn = 5

Pumpkin = 15

Turkey = 6

Pie = 3


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10.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 10 of 12

Area Model

1,3,6,10,...

Sunflower = 20

Turkey = 10

Acorn = 6

Turkey Leg = 40

Leaves = 120

 


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11.) Thanksgiving Math Activity 11 of 12

Solution:

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By Anthony Persico

Anthony is the content crafter and head educator for YouTube's MashUp Math and an advisor to Amazon Education's 'With Math I Can' Campaign. You can often find me happily developing animated math lessons to share on my YouTube channel . Or spending way too much time at the gym or playing on my phone.

 
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